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3 Select the Advanced page.
Option Description
Configure reset at disconnect From the drop-down menu, enable or disable reset at disconnect.
When a distributed port is disconnected from a virtual machine, the configuration
of the distributed port is reset to the distributed port group setting. Any per-port
overrides are discarded.
Override port policies Select the distributed port group policies to be overridden on a per-port level.
4 (Optional) Use the policy pages to set overrides for each port policy.
5 Click OK.
Teaming and Failover Policy
NIC teaming lets you increase the network capacity of a virtual switch by including two or more physical
NICs in a team. To determine how the traffic is rerouted in case of adapter failure, you include physical
NICs in a failover order. To determine how the virtual switch distributes the network traffic between the
physical NICs in a team, you select load balancing algorithms depending on the needs and capabilities of
your environment.
NIC Teaming Policy
You can use NIC teaming to connect a virtual switch to multiple physical NICs on a host to increase the
network bandwidth of the switch and to provide redundancy. A NIC team can distribute the traffic between
its members and provide passive failover in case of adapter failure or network outage. You set NIC
teaming policies at virtual switch or port group level for a vSphere Standard Switch and at a port group or
port level for a vSphere Distributed Switch.
Note All ports on the physical switch in the same team must be in the same Layer 2 broadcast domain.
Load Balancing Policy
The Load Balancing policy determines how network traffic is distributed between the network adapters in
a NIC team. vSphere virtual switches load balance only the outgoing traffic. Incoming traffic is controlled
by the load balancing policy on the physical switch.
For more information about each load balancing algorithm, see Load Balancing Algorithms Available for
Virtual Switches.
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